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- Apple II
- File Type Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- File Type: $D5 (213)
- Auxiliary Type: All
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- Full Name: Music Sequence File
- Short Name: Music Sequence
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- Written by: Matt Deatherage January 1990
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- Files of this type and auxiliary type contain musical sequences.
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- Files of type $D5 contain data that is to be interpreted as a sequence of
- musical notes. A musical sequence can take several forms. It can be the data
- necessary for a music program to recreate the sequence aurally or visually; it
- can be information that is fed through sequencing hardware to produce the
- appropriate sounds; it can be a list of resource numbers that give a program
- the necessary means to recreate a sequence of music. The possibilities are
- virtually limitless. The most common use of sequences is to reproduce music
- aurally (through sound hardware internal or external to the system) or
- visually (to produce music notation on a screen or on paper).
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- The following auxiliary type assignments are current for this file type as of
- the publication date of this Note:
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- Auxiliary Type Short Name Developer
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- $0000 Music Construction Set song* Electronic Arts
- $8002 Diversi-Tune Sequence DSR
- $8003 Master Tracks Jr. sequence Passport
- $8004 Music Writer document PyGraphics
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- Table 1-Auxiliary Type Assignments
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- The auxiliary types for this file type are reserved; any not listed in this
- Note or About File Type Notes must be assigned by Apple Computer, Inc. Using
- any file type or auxiliary type not assigned may result in conflicting
- identification of files by totally unrelated programs. To obtain an auxiliary
- type assignment in this file type, see About File Type Notes.
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- * Although Electronic Arts' program Music Construction Set for the
- Apple IIGS only creates sequences of this file type and auxiliary
- type $0000, the program actually attempts to read any file with
- type $D5. Creators of sequence files may wish to note this
- irregularity in their documentation.
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